Bust-supporter.



PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907.

J. BREE.

BUST SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED 00112, 1905.

9 hm m m5 M m M V Wm A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

JOHhNNES BREE, (SFFHEMNBURG, GERMANY.

BUST-SUPPORTER Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb... 12, 1907.

Application filed October 12,1905. Serial No. 282,404.

can be worn without any injury to health.

It consists, essentially, of two back-plates or frame-pieces. These back-plates are connected together in any suitable manner, and to them the other essential parts of the bustsupport are attached, so that when wearing the same neither the breasts nor the stomach nor the liver are tightened in by lacing.

- ,Several embodiments of bust-supports constructed according to the present invention are shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 shows the front view of a female form provided with one form of my improved bust-support. Fig. 2 is a correspondmg back view. Fig. 3 shows a rear peIspec' tive view of a modified form. Fig. 4 shows 1 the front view of a female form with a further form of bust-support applied The bust-supporter (shown in Figs. 1 and 2) has'two back parts 1 and 2, situated below the shoulder-blades of the wearer, said plates being made from wood, cartonierre, celluloid, vulcanite, or other solid material.- These backpieces are preferably trapezoidal in form and are referably convex, so that they adapt their-use ves well to the body and do not inconvenience in any way the movements thereof.

The back parts 1 and 2 are connected together by spiral springs 3 and 4, fastened to said parts in any suitable manner, the ends of such springs being fastened to or removable from the parts 1 and 2. These spiral springs are made as flat as possible, so that they lie close to the body and do not inconvenience I the wearer or bulge out the clothes, so as to be unsightly. The twocages 5 and 6 for the reception of the breastsform a further part of the bust-support; but said cages are not in themselves new. The side parts 13 14, connected to the cages 5 and 6, are connected with the back parts 1 and 2 by spiral springs 17 18 and 15 16. Finally on the back parts 1 2 spiral springs 19 20 and 21 22 are fastened,

which sustain the body-girdles 23 and 24; These girdles are joined together by a lacing device 25 at the back, which in the usual'way consists of a lace drawn crosswise through eyelets and in front have pressure-button 6 locks 26 of the ordinary construction, by means of which both the girdles 23 and 24- can be joined together in such a manner that they can be separated from each other again when desired. Y

The following might be remarked with reference to the propertiesand the action of the bust-support: As may be seen from Fig. 1, this support does not exercise any injurious pressure on any of the important organs 7c of the body; From Fig. 2 it may further be seen that independently of this there is present a new feature in this bust-support, for by raisin up, bending and stretching the arms, an ,the essential parts of the bust-support act as an elastic system, the relative stable middle points of which are the back parts 1 and 2. These are, as already explained, in no by other movements of the same wav inconvenient, as they are situated on parts of the body whereon the movement of the extremities they are relatively but little affected. These parts of the body have been specially chosen, so that by the arrangement and form of the backpieces no injury can arise from pressure or friction on the shoulder-blades or from particular movements of the body or its extremities, since the spring connection of the essential parts of the bust-support allows the latter to yield, ex-' o tend, an be afterward drawn together again by such springs. The body-girdles 23 and 24, which are also in thetrselves not novel, exert a massage action on the body, owing to their being fastened to the springs 19 20 and 9 5 21 22, thus favorably assisting the work of the intestines. For increasing this action springs 27 28 or 29 30 (shown in Fig. 4) iri ht be arranged, which elastically draw toget er the individual parts 24 and 24 or 23 and I00 23, from which the girdles are formed.

The individu a1v parts of the bust-supporter could be submitted to many alterations. For example, instead of the spiral springs other suitable springs or extensible laces or elastic bands night be substituted, as shown in Fig. 3. The spiral springs, as well as the backpieces 1 and 2, may, if desired, be covered over with linen or other suitable material.

It is desirable to make the backpieces 1 and 2 from metal, and their form can undergo various modifications rectangular, square, or other convenient form. The backpiece 1 may be made from zinc and the backs piece 2 of platinum, or they may be-made of wood and then covered over with these metals. These wholly metallic or partially metallic backpieces' are-"so carried onthe back that they come intodire'ct'contact with it and lie close to'it. A galvanic action thereby results which acts on the sinal' marrow and the nerves going theref rom, which must be'regarded' as very healthy.

Fi 3 shows a modified form of the invention-1n which a third backpiece is arranged opposite the spine, which is either fastened to the spiral springs connecting the back-. pieces 1 and2 or to the elastic bands substituted for said springs, or ectedwith the same in the same manne hjackpieces 1 and 2. In Fig. 3 this pie,ce., is c1e-'v noted by 31.;.1It is of such lensthjth t it reaches from the band 32, 'fastendto it and to the backpieces 1 and 2-,fto one ofl lthe elas-. tic pieces 33, 'connecting'the .s tier-pieces 7 and 8, and is also connectedthjthe elastic band 34 in a similar wayto .the-band 32. Otherwise this bust-supportI corresponds in all its essential parts to that illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is'-' 1. 'In a bust-support, cages covering the breasts, and two backlates consisting of thin and stifl material w liich back-plates are in elastic connection to each other ',and also with the cages coverin 'the breasts, and means for supporting t e support on the body of thewearer. Q1

2. In a bust-sup ort, cages covering the breasts, a'waist-be t, and two back-plates consisting of thin and stiff .material which back-plates are in elastic connection to each other and also with the cages covering the breasts and in elastic connection with the Waist-belt, and means for supporting the support on the body of the wearer.

' 3. In a bust-support, a girdle for supportingthe breasts, two back-plates consisting of thin and stiff material which back-plates are in elastic connection to each other and also with the girdle of the breasts, substantially as set forth.

4. In a bust-support, a girdle for support- E ing the breasts, a'waist-belt', and two backplates-consisting of thin and stifl material 1 breasts and in elastic connection with the "waist-belt, substantially ass t forth.

5. In a bust-support, cages for the breasts, a waist-belt, two back-plates consisting of thin and stiff material, two. elastic straps for connecting the back-plates to each other,

'four elastic straps for connecting the backplates with the outer side edges of the cages,

four elastic straps for connecting the backplates with two upper ends of the cages, and

four elastic straps for connecting the back plates with a waist-belt, substantially asset forth.

- 6. In a bust-support, a girdle for supporting the'breasts, a waist-belt, two back-platesconsisting of thin and stiff material, two g elastic straps to connect these back-platesto each other, four elastic straps to connect the "back-plates with the ends of. the girdle of the breasts, two straps at the upper long edge oft'he girdle, four elastic straps to connect these-straps withthe back-plates, and four elastic straps to connect the back-plates with the waist-belt, substantially as set forth.

" 7. In a bust-sup ort, cages for the breasts, a waist-belt, two' ack-plates consisting of thin and stiff material, two elastic straps to connect the same to each other, four elastic straps to connect the back-plates with the outer side edges of the cages, four elastic straps to connect the back-plates with two upper ends of the cages, one elastic strap to connect the two upper ends of the cages with 7 each other, one stiff bridge to connect the elastic connection-strap ofthe upper ends of the cages with the elastic. connection-straps of the back-plates, and four elastic straps t6 connect the back-plates with the waist-belt, substantially as set forth.

8. A bust-supporter, comprising back-' plates adapted to fit beneath the shoulderblades of the wearer, a bust-support in con nection therewith, a member intermediate of the back-platesto bear against the spine,

and elastic connections between the back- ITO 

